Microsoft Patent on the Slider Control
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LOL! cough cough, I'm positive it was first seen on the Mac.
The Amiga had proportionally sized scroll handles long before Windows or the Mac did (although I'm sure they existed on one of the X-based platforms earlier...)
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LOL! cough cough, I'm positive it was first seen on the Mac.
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norm .net wrote:
'm positive it was first seen on the Mac.
I'm positive the concept was used on electronic, hydraulic & mechanical devices long before any GUI was invented. Some dweeb applies it to a PC and suddenly it's patentable? What a crock!
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Mike Mullikin wrote:
I'm positive the concept was used on electronic, hydraulic & mechanical devices long before any GUI was invented.
Just what I said :)
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Reading through all that info for a patent on a slide control!!! Sheesh! The mind boggles at the amount of time and effort that goes into patenting something as simple as this.
Vincent www.pub-olympics.com
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Reading through all that info for a patent on a slide control!!! Sheesh! The mind boggles at the amount of time and effort that goes into patenting something as simple as this.
Vincent www.pub-olympics.com
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How else would IP lawyers make money?
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IronScheme - 1.0 alpha 4a out now (29 May 2008)Yeah... I was thinking that as I skimmed over the patent. Bunch of to$$ers.:mad:
Vincent www.pub-olympics.com
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norm .net wrote:
'm positive it was first seen on the Mac.
I'm positive the concept was used on electronic, hydraulic & mechanical devices long before any GUI was invented. Some dweeb applies it to a PC and suddenly it's patentable? What a crock!
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Good lord, how could anyone write that much stuff about a slider control? I'd almost read it just to know, but I'd probably die.
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norm .net wrote:
'm positive it was first seen on the Mac.
I'm positive the concept was used on electronic, hydraulic & mechanical devices long before any GUI was invented. Some dweeb applies it to a PC and suddenly it's patentable? What a crock!
Actually, you can do that. If you have a technology that's used solely in the physical and mechanical world, and if you apply it to software, you'll likely get a patent.
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The sad state of things e that if it wasn't MS, it would be some other company or person that would then use it to make a lot of undeserved money.
Yeah. patents are just a necessary evil in this industry. If I had Microsoft stock, I'd pretty much expect them to do this.
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Actually, you can do that. If you have a technology that's used solely in the physical and mechanical world, and if you apply it to software, you'll likely get a patent.
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LOL! cough cough, I'm positive it was first seen on the Mac.
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Yeah, I don't agree with it either. I'm not sure that the people doing these patents at Microsoft agree either. But they have to do it -- it's just the business that we're in.
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Than you should look what else they have patented: Link to MS patents
There can be only one.
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Fortunately we don't have software patents in the EU yet. I hope they never force them here, this is ridiculous.
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Now on M$ surface is it a physical control same as a old audio rack? How about when surface gets enabled with force feed back and texture technologies?